Sneha Girap (Editor)

Garry Nelson

Updated on
Edit
Like
Comment
Share on FacebookTweet on TwitterShare on LinkedInShare on Reddit
Full name
  
Garry Paul Nelson

1979–1983
  
Name
  
Garry Nelson


Role
  
Footballer

Years
  
Team

Position
  
Forward

Garry Nelson theonlywayisreadingfileswordpresscom201206ga

Date of birth
  
(1961-01-16) 16 January 1961 (age 54)

Playing position
  
Striker / Left wing

Place of birth
  
Braintree, England

1994-09-21 Swindon Town vs Charlton Athletic


Garry Paul Nelson (born 16 January 1961) is an English former footballer who played in the Football League for Southend United, Swindon Town, Plymouth Argyle, Brighton & Hove Albion, Charlton Athletic and Torquay United (as player/assistant manager) between 1979 and 1997. He played as a striker or on the left wing. He was voted into Plymouth Argyle's Team of the Century.

Contents

1991-03-23 Swindon Town vs Brighton and Hove Albion


Writing

Garry Nelson Big interview After 25 years of new adventures Garry Nelson is

Nelson also wrote two memoirs about his professional career, Left Foot Forward and Left Foot in the Grave. The books are written in diary form, chronicling a season with Charlton (1994–95) and Torquay (1996–97) respectively. The books have been generally well received, and noted as showing the real life of "ordinary" professional footballers, became best-sellers, and each was shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year award.

Career after retirement

After retiring from the game in 1997, Nelson became commercial executive of the Professional Footballers' Association. In 2009, he was still playing football, regularly turning out for Old Southendians in the Southend Borough Combination Veterans League and Charlton Athletic veterans.

References

Garry Nelson Wikipedia